Omid Kokabee, an Iranian physics doctoral student affiliated with institutions in the United States and Spain, will go on trial tomorrow in Teheran facing charges of “communicating with a hostile government” and “illegal earnings”.
Kokabee has spent the past six months in jail on suspicion of conspiring against Iran (see ‘Missing physicist may have been jailed in Iran‘). Meanwhile, friends, colleagues and other scientists have coordinated a growing campaign to protest his innocence. They say that the graduate student in laser physics is not a political activist, and presents no security risk to the country.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) — Ever clicked to see the street view of your home on Google maps?
A lawsuit out of Nashville alleges it wasn’t just photos that the search engine collected. A class action group says the company wire-tapped into passwords and other information.
The so-called ‘wi-spy’ controversy could have happened to you.
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SEOUL – Allegations of bugging involving the state-run broadcaster KBS have sparked criticism over “unethical journalism,” with others denouncing the ongoing investigation into the claims as an infringement on press freedom.
The suspicion is that on June 23, a 33-year-old KBS reporter, surnamed Jang, bugged a closed-door meeting of the main opposition Democratic Party in which its key members discussed strategies against the move to raise the broadcaster’s viewing fees.
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Vodafone’s Sure Signal femtocells can be adapted to listen to mobile phone calls and to intercept text messages made by the operator’s customers, according to a group of researchers.
Researchers have claimed Vodafone’s Sure Signal femtocells can be adapted to listen to mobile phone calls and to intercept text messages made by customers.
Intruders can also use the femtocells to hijack a number and make calls and send SMS messages from that number, The Hackers Choice (THC) said on Wednesday.
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Beijing, July 9 (KCNA) — An official of the Press Secretariat of the Chinese Defense Ministry at a press conference on July 7 denounced Japan’s espionage.
He accused aircraft of the Japan Air “Self-Defense Force” of steadily expanding the scope of espionage against China in its East Sea and Japan’s warships and planes of monitoring and watching the normal activities of the Chinese side.
This may arouse misunderstanding and misjudgment of both sides, he said, urging Japan to stop such dangerous actions so that accidents might not occur in the seas and sky.
